Symfony 3.1.5 Warning: SessionHandler::read(): Session data file is not created by your uid

Question

I\'m running Symfony 3.1.5 on a Ubuntu 14.04, PHP 7.1 and Apache 2.4.23 stack managed by Vagrant 1.8.6/VirtualBox 5.1.6. I\'m trying to use a simple controller I\'ve made to

Answer 1

Editing config/config.yml and replacing save_path: "%kernel.root_dir%/../var/sessions/%kernel.environment%" with save_path: /var/lib/php/sessions fixed the error.

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